SURF, the collaborative organisation for IT in Dutch education and research and UKB, a partnership of Dutch University Libraries and The Royal Library of the Netherlands have been cooperating closely for more than twenty years on matters of licensing and negotiations with STM publishers. This collaboration has made The Netherlands one of the forerunners of the Open Access movement.
More information on UKB can be found here: https://www.ukb.nl/ambitions
Principal Consortial Functions
Electronic content licensing